August, 2009

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The Secret of Johnny Depp’s Success

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Photo by nicogenin. Did you realise you probably know Johnny Depp's films better than he does? That's if we can take this interview at face value, where he claims not to have seen his latest movie Public Enemies. Incredulous, the interviewer asks him why not. Here's Johnny's answer: I've always kind of tried to avoid them as much as possible. I just prefer the experience.

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Hugh MacLeod Interviews Hazel Dooney

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Photo by Hazel Dooney. If you liked our interviews with artist-entrepreneurs John T. Unger , Natasha Wescoat and Hugh MacLeod , you should check out Hugh's recent interview with Australian artist Hazel Dooney : 10 Questions for Hazel Dooney. Four years ago, Hazel decided to quit the highly-regarded galleries in Sydney and Melbourne who were representing her and go it alone, organising her own exhibitions and marketing her work direct to collectors online.

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How to Succeed in Hollywood

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Sometimes surfing the web leads to buried treasure. That's how I felt when I found Lateral Action. The tag-line said it all. creativity + productivity = success. It Just Adds Up. My wife and I are real-life Hollywood Producers. Sounds fancy, but folks in our line of work have a pretty simple job description: Producers make stuff. They: CREATE an idea for a movie, TV show, or web content.

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Are You Fit Enough to Sit in Front of a Computer All Day?

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Photo by ChrisL AK. There's an old saying that "the pen's lighter than the spade". Back when going to school was a novelty for families used to toiling on the land, adults said it to children, to encourage them to study hard and make a better (and easier) life for themselves. These days, you don't even need to lift a pen. OK, a computer's heavier than a pen, but you don't need to lift it to work with it.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Are You Creating the Right Kind of Buzz?

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To keep it simple, we will consider buzz as something people want to and will talk about. The social media phenomenon has lowered the barrier to creating buzz. There are so many tools (most of them are free) out there to today that can help you with that. If you are lucky, you can create a lot of buzz with very little effort. The real question is - "Are you creating the right kind of buzz?".

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Why Solving Other People’s Problems Is Easy

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Photo by amandabhslater. You love your friend, I know that. But it doesn't disguise the fact he's getting on your nerves. Once again, you're sat listening to the same old complaints about the same old problems. You've been round and round in circles with this, many times. Surely the answer is staring him in the face? Isn't it obvious? You've even told him what he needs to do , several times.

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Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing

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If you have any ambitions to use the web to grow your reputation or business, you need to download and devour Brian Clark's new free report: Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing. Brian is one of the core team members here at Lateral Action, but he's too modest to plug the report here himself ;-) so I'll give you the lowdown.

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T.S. Eliot’s Path to Success

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You have to be absolutely determined, otherwise you might just as well write poetry. (Sir Terence Conran, quoted in The Creative Economy by John Howkins). Terence Conran offers excellent advice to aspiring entrepreneurs, but he obviously has a thing or two to learn about poetry. He seems to think writing poetry is easy compared to building a business, and that most poetry is written by shy, retiring wallflowers with little or no ambition.

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